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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"The pains of death," that is, of the flesh, have "compassed Me about. And the overflowings of ungodliness have troubled Me" [Psalm 18:4]. Ungodly troubles stirred up for a time, like torrents of rain which will soon subside, have come on to trouble Me.
Thomas Aquinas
"They surrounded me." Here the necessity of deliverance is set forth. And first he shows the magnitude of deliverance. Second, the prayer he pours forth to God in tribulation. Third, he sets forth the hearing of his prayer, "he heard." Note that these three -- iniquity, death, and hell -- are ordered to one another in this way: that from iniquity a person is led to death, and through death is led down to hell; and just as the first is the way to the second, so the second is to the third. …
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